Although Russians are generally evil ones, there are several games which are different from that (well, apart from war and strategy games).
For example, Metro games are clearly just about Russians. I didn't play the games but read the books.
Also S.T.A.L.K.E.R., which is about Ukrainian part of USSR, but culture and people are almost the same. At least, they were.
Part of Syberia games are in Russia or Russia-like environment. People there are strict bishops, greedy traders, alcoholics and frauds. Too exaggerated images.
Kholat is about the Dyatlov Pass incident in Russia. This game shows pretty realistic Russian buildings.
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Scotland
idk
We were gnomes in Kingdoms of Amalur.
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The Black Mirror point-and-click adventure series was set in Scotland.
I can't be sure, but it seemed accurate to me. Scotland is chock-full of old castles and villages harboring secret cults, right?
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Ehhh I think if we had cutls we'd be less secretive.
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Argentina here. I'm surprised that no one have mentioned the football-soccer games... Oh. I see.
Well, we are slowly becoming part of the "bad boys gang" of South America in action games, wich is... worrisome, according to this timeline I put together:
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In Desert Strike (1992) we played to overthrow General Kilbaba (Saddam Hussein-looking) in the Persian Gulf, In 2003 it was the invasion of Iraq.
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Mercenaries 2 (2008) put us in the boots of a shock force that invaded Venezuela to "save" them from an "evil dictator", well we all know how things are going there...
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In Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare (2014), Argentina is fully assimilated and it's mentioned a base in Río Gallegos, so I'm kinda worry about 2025.
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Let me start off by saying that I'm from Sweden. If any of you have ever wondered, the "pannkaka" in my name comes from the Swedish word for "pancake", because that's my favorite food. Actually, I prefer to call myself "spökpannkaka" (ghost pancake), but since most websites don't recognize ö as a letter, I usually become spookypannkaka instead. (And I won't call myself spokpannkaka, because that's nonsense)
But that wasn't what this post is about. Recently I've been thinking a lot that damn, why do so many games place Sweden in a post-apocalyptic setting?
We have Mutant Year Zero: Road to Eden, which is based on the Swedish role playing game with the same name, and developed by a Swedish studio. I haven't played it but I'm assuming that's where the game is supposed to take place based on that and some funny references.
We also have Generation Zero, which is set in 80's Sweden in, that's right, a post-apocalyptic setting.
Recently I played Whispers of a Machine, which I guess isn't directly said to be in Sweden but it features typically Swedish names (with butchered pronunciation of course) and the town has signs that are in Swedish (skola and matsal for example). Aaaand it is in a post-apocalyptic setting!
Bonus: This is not a game, but Simon Stålenhag does some amazing post-apocalyptic Sweden art, and you should definitely check him out.
The users on SteamGifts are all around the world though. How is your country represented in gaming?
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